"home stretch" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-home stretch.ogg [Australia] Forms: home stretches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} home stretch (plural home stretches)
  1. The final part of a racecourse from the last curve to the finish line. Synonyms: home straight, homestretch
    Sense id: en-home_stretch-en-noun-6aaHsb1Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12
  2. (figurative, by extension) The final part of a distance or the final effort needed to finish. Tags: broadly, figuratively Synonyms: home straight Translations (final part of a distance or effort): последен етап (posleden etap) (Bulgarian), recta final [feminine] (Catalan), laatste rechte lijn [feminine] (Dutch), laatste loodjes [neuter, plural] (Dutch), lõpusirge (Estonian), loppusuora (Finnish), dernière ligne droite [feminine] (French), Zielgerade [feminine] (German), célegyenes (Hungarian), dirittura d'arrivo [feminine] (Italian), ラストスパート (rasto spāto) (Japanese), 追い込み (oikomi) (alt: おいこみ) (Japanese), ostatnia prosta [feminine] (Polish), reta final [feminine] (Portuguese), финишная пряма́я (finišnaja prjamája) (Russian), recta final [feminine] (Spanish), upplopp [neuter] (Swedish), giai đoạn cuối cùng (Vietnamese), לעצטער מהלך (letster mhlkh) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-home_stretch-en-noun-2EdjzHKu Disambiguation of 'final part of a distance or effort': 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (final stretch of a race): финална права (finalna prava) [feminine] (Bulgarian), recta d'arribada [feminine] (Catalan), cílová rovinka [feminine] (Czech), lõpusirge (Estonian), loppusuora (Finnish), maalisuora (Finnish), dernière ligne droite [feminine] (French), Zielgerade [feminine] (German), τελική ευθεία (telikí eftheía) [feminine] (Greek), célegyenes (Hungarian), dirittura d'arrivo [feminine] (Italian), ostatnia prosta [feminine] (Polish), reta final [feminine] (Portuguese), фи́нишная пряма́я (fínišnaja prjamája) [feminine] (Russian), cieľová rovinka [feminine] (Slovak), recta final [feminine] (Spanish), upplopp [neuter] (Swedish), chặng cuối (Vietnamese), לעצטער מהלך (letster mhlkh) [masculine] (Yiddish)
Disambiguation of 'final stretch of a race': 55 45

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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "final part of a distance or effort",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "recta final"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "final part of a distance or effort",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "upplopp"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "final part of a distance or effort",
      "word": "giai đoạn cuối cùng"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "letster mhlkh",
      "sense": "final part of a distance or effort",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "לעצטער מהלך"
    }
  ],
  "word": "home stretch"
}

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